1 Summer 2020 Conference Planner INTRODUCTION The staff of K-State Housing and Dining Services want to help make your event successful. The Guest Services office (785 532-6368) will be open in the summer on Monday - Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. We coordinate our department's services, assign residence hall space, check groups into and out of our halls and staff our halls. We offer conference housing, guest housing for individuals here for university-related business or events, and summer school housing for those enrolled for K-State credit. This document covers summer conference housing and dining services in K-State's residence halls. Please contact Housing and Dining Services at 785 532-6453 to learn about housing for traditional summer school students, who we expect to house in Marlatt Hall. Housing and Dining Services is a self-operated, auxiliary university department, with units responsible for Dining Services, Residence Life, Apartment Living, Facilities Management, Information Systems and Business Operations. Students living in our residence halls and apartments, as well as conference participants, are the primary sources of revenue for the department. No state or federal funds are received. You may arrange for one of our Housing and Dining Services conference staff to attend an orientation meeting for your conference, to review services and policies. To request a special K-State welcome and/or a special campus tour, contact New Student Services at 785 532-6318. Arrangements will need to be made in advance. Photographs may occasionally be taken at hall and dining events, for publications and electronic media. These photographs will be the property of K-State. If you have questions or concerns, please contact the Communications and Marketing Coordinator before the event at 785 532-2874. Kramer Dining Center is expected to serve all groups from May 26 (breakfast) until the end of summer conferences on August 14. Click for the Kramer Dining Center menu. There are web page links (bold purple) in this Planner. In the PDF version, the links should be clickable. RESIDENCE HALLS All residence halls are air-conditioned, and located within walking distance of the academic halls, K-State Student Union, Alumni Center and recreational facilities. Residence hall exterior doors will be locked 24 hours per day. Access cards will be issued to all participants and staff. Services requested apply to all participants of a conference. Meals are optional, but a meal plan must be requested to receive reduced room rates for youth. Discounted room and board plans for groups staying two weeks or longer include 20 meals per week. Meal and room requests are treated as a package. The conference will be invoiced accordingly, whether or not all participants stay the requested number of nights, and/or take all requested meals. Charges are not prorated for individual variations from arranged arrival and departure dates and times of a conference. Vending machines, wireless Internet access and periodic front desk operations are available to participants. A bath towel, hand towel, washcloth, plastic drinking cup, blanket, sheets, pillow and pillowcase will be provided in the room, at no charge. Beds are not made. Towels may be exchanged at the front desk, as needed. Linens may be exchanged once per week. Complimentary hotel soap bars are available at the front desk. Each person will have a single bed, desk and chair, closet or wardrobe, storage drawers and a wastebasket. Guest rooms do not have telephones. Housekeepers prefer that on checkout day, guests leave bedding in place on the beds, and hang wet towels on the racks provided in the room, or on closet clothes bars. Each hall has a laundry room. Liquid detergent (in limited amounts) should be used in our high-efficiency washers. Laundry cards may be purchased with cash (only) at the Haymaker Hall front desk for $7.00 (the price to wash and dry two loads), and may be used in all of our laundry rooms. Refunds are not provided for unused service. 2 Public areas within and outside the residence halls are not always available. Additional charges apply for conference rooms and other areas. Scheduling should be approved by the Guest Services office, as far in advance as possible. Sometimes unforeseen circumstances occur. Housing and Dining Services is not responsible for last-minute changes in services provided, including utilities (e.g., air conditioning and hot water), due to equipment malfunctions, university- wide repair projects or other building-related problems. The department cannot be held responsible for unexpected situations beyond its control; however, everything possible will be done to rectify the situation in a timely manner, and reduce the inconvenience caused by the problem. Monetary adjustments will not be provided. Guest Rooms and Suites Each residence hall has more than one room style and occupancy, which may be helpful to you. Blueprints for the floors assigned to you, in PDF format, can be e-mailed. Here is some information on room styles: Regular Rooms • Most halls primarily have standard, two-person rooms, available for double or single occupancy. - Most corridors with standard rooms have one community bathroom. Wefald and West central bathroom areas contain four lockable rooms, with a sink, shower and toilet. - No more than two participants may stay in a two-person room. - In Haymaker Hall, most floors have standard, two-person rooms on the A corridors, and suites on the B corridors. Suites • Suites house from one to four persons, with an attached bathroom. There is an additional charge. - Ford and Haymaker have two quad suites per corridor, each with four beds. These suites are partially-divided, with a private bathroom at one end of the rectangular suite. Quads are charged as multiperson suites. - Most Ford and Haymaker suites are room-bathroom-room suites (two two-person rooms, with the bathroom between them). Each resident room has a sink, mirror and cabinets. Residents have access to the student room on the other side of the bathroom, so we require a gender match in room-bathroom-room suites. - Any conference requesting suites, or requesting to be placed in Ford or Van Zile, will be charged the suite rate. - Many single and two-person suites share a bathroom (shower and toilet) with one other suite. - Rates for suites are either single or multiperson (two, three or four occupants), and are based on how many people will be sleeping in the same room. There is a single rate and a multiperson rate. - Each hall with suites has more than one configuration and number of beds. Call to learn more. • Each corridor in Haymaker and Moore has one small single room. The bed is permanently lofted in many of these rooms. These singles are not prepared for summer use, and will be crossed off room assignment spreadsheets. Please do not assign them. If you have need for a single room, the answer is to assign a double room as single. • Three-person rooms are very limited in availability. Boyd and Putnam each have 15 three-person rooms. If a three-person room is needed, a multiperson or quad suite ($3 more per-person, per-night) may be the answer. Bathrooms Corridors with regular rooms have a community bathroom. Suites have attached bathrooms, which may be shared with one adjacent room. Wefald Hall and West Hall corridor bathrooms have within them four lockable rooms, each with a shower, toilet and sink/counter. On floors with community bathrooms, male and female participants (except families) are not assigned to the same wing. Families will need to use bathrooms marked for males and females. 3 Front Desk Services A participant with a concern, questions, or who wishes to exchange towels, is welcome to visit the front desk of the residence hall. The usual pattern of staffing of our desks is during meal times and 9 p.m. to midnight. Residence hall exterior doors are normally locked 24 hours per day. Each participant will be provided an access card. Main lobby doors may be unlocked during the check-in and checkout times of a large conference. Visitors will be asked to call participants down to the main lobby to escort them. We ask that sponsors of youth camps make participants and parents aware of your camp's policies on visitors, and our escort policy. Recreational items for ping pong, foosball and billiards are available for checkout by conference or guest housing participants. We will ask to hold the conference access card until equipment is returned. For short-term campers, we only check out items (balls, cues, paddles) needed for the game tables visible in lobbies. Mail and Packages Mail may be picked up at the front desk, once the participant's identity is checked. Participants may check the message board at the front desk to see if they have mail or messages. The mailing address must include the name of the conference, the room number and name of the residence hall, and the street address. The name of the conference must be included. Here is an example address format for Haymaker Hall: Willie Wildcat, Livestock Judging Camp 213 Haymaker Hall 1301 Claflin Rd. Y A street address (available at your front desk) is required by package carriers. Manhattan, KS 66506 Participants of groups staying with us for multiple weeks will have letters and package notices placed in their mailboxes. The room door key opens the corresponding mailbox. Mailboxes are located in the main lobby. Our staff are not allowed to accept or hold personal items to or from participants. Internet and Computer Room Access Student rooms in the Derby and Kramer complexes have Aruba wireless ethernet hubs, with three ethernet jacks.